IC Sociology's Assistant Professor, Jessica Dunning-Lozano's presentation explores the extension of punitive policies into the school lives of marginalized black and Latino children. Additionally, how disciplinary practices and procedures in punishing schools constitute "disciplinary technologies" devoted to the transformation of students deemed "culturally deficient" by school authorities.
Jessica Dunning-Lozano is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ithaca College. Jessica’s research investigates the effects of large-scale social, economic, and penal policies on US public schooling, low-income communities and communities of color. She received her PhD in Sociology and a Graduate Portfolio in Mexican-American Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. Jessica’s research interests are in race, education, crime, law, and deviance, poverty, and ethnography.
Jessica Dunning-Lozano's research has been funded through the American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program, the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, the C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair in U.S.-Mexico Relations, the President's Fellowship at the University of Texas, the Marilyn Yarbrough Dissertation/ Teaching Fellowship Program, and The National Academy of Education/ Spencer Foundation.
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